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Tai Chi Goatsmilk Quest and Boom, That’s What I Do
What do I do for a living, they asked. Well, I just got back from drinking milk squeezed fresh out of the goat before my very eyes in the breakfast break at Tai Chi Retreat in the wilds of Wales. … Continue reading
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It’s Not You, It’s Me
Reading, Seeing and Hearing the outrage from all directions I can understand why we were told never to discuss politics, sex or religion. Then they told us of our government’s holdings of Krupp shares in WW1, and Imperial Japanese War Bonds in WW2. … Continue reading
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The Tao of Who
Tao is Old and Tao is New Tao is False and Tao is True When they ask the Tao of Who Tao is Me and Tao is You
Garden Dream
After 22 years suspended between heaven and earth I have a garden. I see it now peeking through the windows of my mind the step I go down to flatten the grass with the souls of my feat, an achievement of … Continue reading
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First Step Second Step Third Step Quickstep
Moving home for the first time in twenty-two years, my advice to anyone thinking about it? Well, I nearly wrote ‘don’t’ but, actually, looking beyond the boxes that fill my vision, I am happy to continue this visit to the … Continue reading
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The First Step
Journey of a Thousand Miles – of course you’ve heard it before – starts with a single step. But which way? Witch way or Wizard Way? When I dropped my career and picked up my rucksack I just knew there … Continue reading
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Reflections on a Hell-bent Youth: 2 – The next Step
Rumor had her a virgin. He stepped over that threshold himself, a few months before on a warm night up-country in the tractor-driver’s hut. Mwala in an idle moment lasting half the day asked, ‘Done it yet?’ knowing full well … Continue reading
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Reflections on a Hell-Spent Youth: 1 – First Kiss
Lean and intellectual, broad-minded and narrow-lipped, Meg Ryan haircut, but secretly I preferred Hedda’s little sister Betski, rounder-hipped, more succulent if you like, and I did, but at fourteen the art of deception yet unmastered with bated breath I screwed up courage and did … Continue reading
My Tai Chi Journey
Shadowy movements at dawn in the park, neither dancing nor fighting though to me it looked like both. My mother danced with Fonteyn and enrolled me in my aunt’s ballet school but I retired at five, so no competition for … Continue reading
The Look
Sitting quietly in the Tao Garden some years ago in the days when I wore the ‘guru look’ I noticed a young man giving me the keen interested glances of someone seeing someone he thought might be a kind of … Continue reading
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